NYC Junto Newsletter written by Iris Bell on January 23, 2015 ___________________________________________________ Contents * Junto meeting Thursday, February 5, 2015 * NEW Junto speakers through November 2015 * NEW NYC Ayn Rand Meetup, Sunday, Jan. 25, 3:00pm * NEW Ayn Rand's birthday, Sunday, Feb. 1, noon to 3:00pm * NEW 50 Years: Impossible Medicare, Wed. Feb. 11, 7:00pm * NEW "Atlas Shrugged: Protecting freedom" course * NEW A champion of law informed by economics * NEW "3 Enemies of Capitalism" talk by Carrie-Ann Biondi * NEW "What happened to freedom of speech?" Yaron Brook * NEW Yaron Brook Show, 2nd show, about D.C. and more * NEW Challenge of Liberty Seminars, Independent Institute * NEW Aristos online arts magazine, new issue, objective * NEW Atlas Network, 10 happenings in global freedom * NEW Martin Anderson died, helped end the draft * NEW Alex Epstein: 97% of climate scientists,100% wrong * NEW Alex Epstein: On the Dr. Drew Pinsky Show, podcast * NEW Alex Epstein: BookTV "Moral Case for Fossil Fuels" * NEW Free market & Objectivist local meetings, sites, podcasts * NEW IJ wins civil forfeiture case, IRS to return $447,000 * Read and post to Junto sites * About Junto and this Junto newsletter NEW___________________________ __________________ Junto focuses on free markets, Objectivism and investing. It's a group that shares information, discusses current issues and presents speakers. Thursday, February 5, 2015 Benjamin W. Powell "Out of Poverty: Sweatshops in the global economy" AND the celebration of Ayn Rand's 110th birthday. Admission free -- no reservation necessary * We'll socialize from 7:00pm to 7:30pm * 7:30pm moderator, Gene Epstein calls first for announcements of things happening before the next Junto. Then he asks for other announcements and for people to introduce themselves. * The speaker begins promptly at 8:00pm. * Most speakers will present their thoughts in several sections. Each section will have audience questions, discussions and rebuttal of the speaker's points. * Discussions are intense but polite. * The meeting will continue to 10:00pm or later. General Society Library 20 West 44 Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues, NYC near the Grand Central Terminal * Junto meets on the first Thursday of every month * Participation by all attendees is highly encouraged. * 70 to 150 people attend most Junto meetings. Benjamin W. Powell, will speak on his book "Out of Poverty: Sweatshops in the global economy" He's Free Market Institute director, Texas Tech University. In 2013 he joined Texas Tech as director of the Free Market Institute and to teach in the Rawls College of Business. Before Texas Tech he was associate professor of economics at Suffolk University, an assistant professor of economics at San José State University and director of the Center on Entrepreneurial Innovation at Independent Institute. He's a senior fellow with the Independent Institute, a libertarian think tank. He's North American editor of the Review of Austrian Economics. He became interested in economics through the writings of Milton Friedman, F.A. Hayek, Ludwig Von Mises and Murray Rothbard. His Ph.D. is from George Mason University, 2003, where he studied Austrian Economics and Public Choice Theory. www.tiny.cc/BPowell AND followed by the Junto celebration of Ayn Rand's 110th birthday ______________________________ ____________________ * Junto's audio podcasts since May 2014 at: www.tiny.cc/jPod Listen to the January 2014 Junto talk by Andrew Bernstein "Introduction to Objectivism" www.tiny.cc/AB ______________________________ ____________________ * The Junto Forum, read and post: www.tiny.cc/JuntoForum * Visit Junto's site for information on current and past speakers, to listen to podcasts of previous Juntos, to read previous newsletters and to sign up for the Junto e-newsletter: www.NYCjunto.com * Visit Junto on Facebook: www.tiny.cc/NYCjunto * Follow Junto on Twitter: www.twitter.com/NYCJunto ______________________________ ____________________ Junto's founder and host is Victor Niederhoffer. Visit his site: www.DailySpeculations.com ****************************** ******************** Feel free to use the above text to promote Junto among free marketers, Objectivists and investors. ______________________________ ____________________ Come to Junto, meet these upcoming speakers: March 5 Nina Teicholz and John Mackey will DEBATE: "An animal foods/low-carb centered diet is unhealthy compared with a 90+% plant-based diet that excludes sugar and refined grain products." Teicholz takes the negative and Mackey takes the affirmative. Teicholz is the author of "The Big Fat Surprise: Why butter, meat & cheese belong in a healthy diet." Investigative journalist who's reported for National Public Radio: www.tiny.cc/BFs Mackey is working on a book about healthy diet. He spoke at Junto in June 2013. He's co-CEO of Whole Foods Market. His stores often have Dr. Fuhrman's Nutrient Density numbers on items on the salad bar. Fuhrman says 90% of the daily diet should be nutrient rich plant foods: www.tiny.cc/DrF Whole Food Market's healthy eating: www.tiny.cc/WholeFoodM April 2 Jason Riley, Wall Street Journal editorial board member, on his book "Please Stop Helping Us: How liberals make it harder for blacks to succeed" Gene Epstein's review in Barron's: www.tiny.cc/Jriley May 7 Casey Mulligan on his book "Side Effects: The economic consequences of Obamacare" University of Chicago economist, his blog is "Supply and Demand (in that order):" www.tiny.cc/caseyM June 4 Janine Wedel on her book "Unaccountable: How elite power brokers corrupt our finances, freedom, and security" professor in the School of Policy, Government and International Affairs at George Mason University: www.tiny.cc/jWedel July 2, Christopher Preble, "Wars of Choice vs. Wars of Necessity" Cato VP defense and foreign policy studies Biography: www.tiny.cc/preble His blog: www.tiny.cc/Pre August 6, Tyler Cowen, economics professor George Mason University, director Mercatus Center. He's spoken at Junto more than any other speaker. He blogs daily: www.tiny.cc/MarRev September and October 2015 speakers will be announced November 5 Richard A. Epstein spoke at Junto Sept. 2011 and April 1997. Law professor NY University, adjunct scholar Cato, senior fellow Hoover Institution, senior lecturer University Chicago Law School. Legal Affairs poll: one of the 20 most influential legal thinkers. His tweets: www.tiny.cc/eTweets NEW___________________________ ___________________ NYC Ayn Rand Meetup, Sunday, January 25, 3:00pm As always, we'll talk about Ayn Rand, her works, challenges, Objectivist life, options, associations and knowledge. Give and take, open to all, no charge, no reservations. It's on the last Sunday of each month. It's at The Midtown Restaurant, 155 East 55 Street, between 3rd and Lexington Avenues, mid-block on the north side of 55th Street, in Manhattan, free. There are usually about two dozen people at each Meetup. Benny Pollack, Ayn Rand Meetup organizer, says: "Join our group of regular Objectivists for a lively discussion on topics related to Ayn Rand and Objectivist philosophy in general. "Please join us. If you are already versed in the topic, want to learn or just want to spend an intellectually stimulating afternoon, please come. I hope to see you all there." Get up-to-date info: www.AynRand.meetup.com/8 NEW___________________________ ___________________ Celebrate Ayn Rand's birthday, Sun., Feb. 1, noon to 3:00pm NY Objectivists/NY Heroes, in honor of Rand's 110th birthday (February 2, 1905) will gather in midtown Manhattan. The program will include members describing Rand's influence in their lives and a discussion of nearby references she wrote about in her work. The meeting will begin inside the public space at 120 Park Avenue, main entrance on 42nd Street at the SW corner, across the street from Grand Central Terminal. Alternate entrance on Park Avenue, south of 42nd Street. We'll conclude with brunch, just steps away, across Park Ave., on 42nd Street across from Grand Central Terminal. We'll be in the Pershing Square Cafe: www.pershingsquare.com Hosted by Robert Begley, Junto speaker. More information and to sign up: www.meetup.com/nyheroes NEW___________________________ ___________________ 50 Years Later: Impossible math of Medicare, Wed. Feb. 11, 7:00pm by Rituparna Basu, analyst at the Ayn Rand Institute She'll ask the hard questions and lay out what we must do to solve one of today's biggest problems. Fifty years after passage, Medicare's unfunded liabilities top $100 trillion -- money the government has promised tomorrow's seniors that it doesn't have. No amount of taxation can make up for this shortfall, which equals almost six times the size of today's economy. Yet while people know that Medicare is unsustainable, the program remains a third-rail issue in politics, untouchable in the minds of many Americans and political suicide for politicians who dare to approach it. Why is this? Are Americans right to want the program to stay as is? And what will happen if we continue to resist reform? 7:00pm reception, 7:30pm lecture and Q&A CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, off 34th Street Students free, general audience $10, light refreshment served Pay online or at the door, cash or credit card. By phone: 949-222-6550 extension 204 Sign up: www.tiny.cc/RandTalks *** This is the sixth of 10 months of NYC lectures. Each is on the second Wednesday of the month, in the same building but on different floors. These "Road to a Free Society: Ayn Rand Institute on Tour" speakers also give their talks in Chicago, Irvine, CA and Palo Alto/San Francisco. The interactive forum will give you the opportunity to ask questions about today's cultural and political issues and gain an understanding of how Ayn Rand's views on individualism and capitalism apply to the challenges of our time. If you're new to Rand's ideas or familiar with them, this is your chance to ask questions and engage the speakers. NEW___________________________ ___________________ "Atlas Shrugged: Protecting freedom in America" course By Andrew Bernstein, Jan. 2015 Junto speaker. One day each in April and May, with time to integrate the first-day's material. Dates, cost, location, probably eastern Penn., to be announced. "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand predicted America's current collapse into cultural insanity, moral depravity, socialist politics. Learn to make accurate projections about the future like those Rand made 5 to 6 decades before these events occurred. Her method was consistently rational -- the reality-based, pro-reason, pro-individual rights philosophy, Objectivism. Learn her ideas about proper reasoning, nature of the world, requirements for human prosperity, rational morality, individual-rights-preserving politics and more. In a world in which individual rights and capitalism have proven they protect freedom and promote prosperity, why are we steadily losing both? In the lectures he'll demonstrate the philosophic principles of Objectivism with examples from the novel and real life, he'll help you to "chew," "digest" and integrate. Get updates from Paul Saunders: phone 610-248-5549 or email PrSaunders7@verizon.net NEW___________________________ ___________________ A champion of law informed by economics "Tough business competitors should get at least the same legal fairness we normally give Klansmen or crack dealers." Henry G. Manne, dean emeritus of the George Mason School of Law, died Jan. 17, 2015 at 86. The author of "Insider Trading and the Stock Market" and a pioneer in the field of law and economics was a frequent contributor to the Wall St. Journal: I learned about him for the first time in this Wall Street Journal article. I wish I'd known about him earlier: "For Milken, verdict first, trial later" Feb. 3, 1990 The government wants $1.8 billion in RICO forfeitures from [Michael] Milken and his co-defendants. The government claims that Mr. Milken's alleged securities infractions were RICO violations, which made Drexel part of a RICO "enterprise," which means he must forfeit all his Drexel compensation.... ...[Milken] has been a disruptive and unsettling innovator in the usually staid financial world makes it all the more important to be vigilant about possible abuse of fair procedures. We hardly need a regime of civil liberties to protect passive, unventuresome members of the community. Letter to the editor Aug. 24, 1999 Our judges are regularly asked to decide complex issues of antitrust law without any sophistication as to what competitive markets are all about; intellectual property cases without any grounding in the nature of property rights or the significance of private contract. They are asked to resolve arcane contract damage issues without knowing the difference between accounting revenues and economic profits. Market economics is claimed by its opponents to represent one extreme of the ideological spectrum. Thus, if a [Koch brothers] firm funds judicial education in market economics, that firm must be engaged in the ex-parte brainwashing of judges. Why [have] colleges & law schools...failed so miserably to build a fundamental understanding of how...economy functions? "Bring back the hostile takeover" June 26, 2002 Since Enron, there has been an outbreak of regulatory fever in Washington...Apparently forgotten is how Enron and other recent scandals were the direct result of regulatory and judicial efforts to stem abuses in the takeover arena 20 and more years ago. They still haven't learned just how high the cost of interfering with salutary market forces can be. ...New scandals will continue until we bring back the most powerful market mechanism for displacing bad managers: hostile takeovers. "Options? Nah, try insider trading" Aug. 2, 2002 Currently, the SEC sees its job as regulating the entire market for information. This is madness. It starts at the supply side with accounting rules that began life as managerial tools and tries to make them into a valuation scheme. It finishes on the demand side by restricting insider trading, which merely shifts the identity of the people who may trade first on undisclosed information. If insider trading were legal and used to replace or supplement stock options, there would be no "tragedies" of employees being left high and dry with options way out of the money. There would be no loss of reward when an innovation merely resulted in a reduction of an expected loss. There would be no unearned gain because a company's stock appreciated in line with a market or industry rise. And there would be no peculiar problems of accounting since such trading would be entirely extraneous to the company's accounts. "Regulation 'in terrorem' " Nov. 22, 2004 ...make no mistake: [NY Attorney General] Eliot Spitzer represents, wittingly or not, an attack on the entire corporate free-enterprise system. Clearly we need new or invigorated institutions to defend industries and companies publicly when they come under unwarranted or disproportionate attack. ...leaders of the business community should make it a high priority to develop these capabilities before more harm is done. "Milton Friedman was right" Nov. 26, 2006 ...he was absolutely correct about the significance of proposals for socially responsible corporate behavior, whether they emanated from within or outside the corporation. These proposals reflect...the inability of many commentators to distinguish between...free enterprise system and socialism. ... corporate behemoths...must either be regulated by the state or they must act as though they are owned by the public....This attitude is reflected...by corporate activists [and] by many "modern" corporate managers. These are from: www.tiny.cc/law NEW___________________________ ___________________ "Three Enemies of Capitalism" a talk by Carrie-Ann Biondi Part of John Galt's success in stopping "the motor of the world" by persuading producers to go on strike is due to knowing his intellectual enemies. He defeats enemies of capitalism not only by making the moral case for capitalism, but also by reclaiming terminology and undermining the false premises of his enemies' views. In this video, Carrie-Ann explains and challenges the essential claims of Karl Marx's communism and Alasdair MacIntyre's conservatism, and defends capitalism against the false accusations lodged against it by these enemies concerning alienation, exploitation and consumerism. Carrie-Ann was in the audience of the Jan. Junto. Watch her talk at: www.tiny.cc/capitalOne and www.tiny.cc/capitalTwo NEW___________________________ ___________________ "What happened to freedom of speech?" The Yaron Brook Show His 1st show, online blog/audio, began Jan. 7th with a special edition because of the shooting in Paris. It focused on freedom of speech. Yaron is president of the Ayn Rand Institute, The slaughter of journalists at Charlie Hebdo in Paris is part of a longstanding war against freedom of speech. Before that horrific incident there were many threats and attacks. Recall intimidation of Sony Pictures over "The Interview," 2011 firebombing of Charlie Hebdo, 2006 deadly global riots over Mohammad cartoons in a Danish newspaper and 1989 Iran's death decree against novelist Salman Rushdie and more. There's a climate of fear and self-censorship, TV networks removed shows, publishers scrapped plans to release books, a college dis-invited commencement speaker Ayaan Hirsi Ali. You can listen to this episode: www.bit.do/FreeSpeech NEW___________________________ ___________________ The Yaron Brook Show, 2nd show, about D.C. and more In this episode Yaron talked about "Why I hate Washington, DC," why he used to love DC and why his attitude changed, the issue he predicts will dominate the 2016 election, how Objectivism differs from libertarianism, why he loves classical music, films that should win Oscars: www.tiny.cc/YaronTwo NEW___________________________ ___________________ Challenge of Liberty Seminars from The Independent Institute June and July, Boulder and Berkeley, 18-35 year old, some scholarships, 5 nights, 4 days, speakers include Junto speakers Robert Higgs, Gregory Rehmke, Benjamin Powell. Philosophical foundations of a free society, rise of liberty in the West and the elemental principles of economics. Social networking and more. www.tiny.cc/Seminar NEW___________________________ ___________________ Aristos online arts magazine, new issue, objective standards Movie review: "Mr. Turner," Don't Ask Wikipedia! (cautionary tale), Alchemies, Illuminations (a poetry collection), What Makes a Poem a Poem?, Aristos awards: A.C. Douglas (Independent Music/Culture Weblogger) for "On Music and Gibberish," Anna Hyatt Huntington: A Compendium, on the life and work of 20th century sculptor. Poetry: A Belief in Alchemy by Richard H. Behm, worth reading: In Praise of Dead White Men by Lindsay Johns, on the Western literary canon. By Louis Torres and Michelle Kamhi (recently at Junto) www.aristos.org NEW___________________________ ___________________ Atlas Network, top 10 happenings in global freedom movement Asia Liberty Forum, 3rd annual in Nepal, 20 sessions, tools for successful think tanks, inspirational ideas of liberty. Central bank activism in U.S., EU, Japan creates market volatility. By engineering distorted price signals central bankers create the volatile market conditions they hope to combat. Building a new liberty movement in Greece, how to reform liquor trade policy in India, Civismo economist nominated for Spain's best business book, challenging Piketty's inequality empirics, how markets are changing in the worldwide sharing economy: www.AtlasNetwork.org NEW___________________________ ___________________ Martin Anderson died, critical to ending the military draft He died at 78, among his achievements were helping to eliminate the military draft and heading off a national ID card. From the 1960s he was part of Ayn Rand's NY circle and he helped make real the principles of individual liberty and limited government she espoused. In his 1964 book "The Federal Bulldozer: A critical analysis of urban renewal, 1942-1962" he demonstrated government policy destroyed affordable housing at huge taxpayer expense. He was a leading advocate of eliminating the military draft, in 1968 he helped persuade then-presidentional candidate Richard Nixon to replace conscription with an all-volunteer army. He was domestic policy advisor for Ronald Reagan. In a cabinet meeting attorney general William Smith wanted to require a national ID card for all working in the U.S. Anderson explained the card could be faked. Why not tattoo a number on everyone's wrist? Reagan understood the allusion to Nazi practices, the proposal died. For more about his life and writing: www.tiny.cc/MA In his NY Times obituary "...[an] economist who helped shape American economic policy in the 1980s as a top adviser to President Ronald Reagan...:" www.tiny.cc/mA NEW___________________________ ___________________ Alex Epstein: "97% of climate scientists agree" is 100% wrong Alex, the founder of the Center for Industrial Progress and author of "The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels," writes: If you've ever expressed the least bit of skepticism about environmentalist calls for making the vast majority of fossil fuel use illegal, you've probably heard the smug response: "97% of climate scientists agree with climate change"... ...the specific meaning of the 97% claim is: 97% of climate scientists agree that there is a global warming trend and that human beings are the main cause -- that is, that we are over 50% responsible. The warming is a whopping 0.8 degrees over the past 150 years, a warming that has tapered off to essentially nothing in the last decade and a half. ...how was that proven?...[John] Cook is able to demonstrate only that a relative handful endorse "the view that the Earth is warming up and human emissions of greenhouse gases are the main cause." ...when the study was publicly challenged by economist David Friedman, one observer calculated that only 1.6% explicitly stated that man-made greenhouse gases caused at least 50% of global warming. Where did most of the 97% come from, then? Cook had created a category called "explicit endorsement without quantification" -- that is, papers in which the author, by Cook's admission, did not say whether 1% or 50% or 100% of the warming was caused by man. He had also created a category called "implicit endorsement," for papers that imply (but don't say) that there is some man-made global warming and don't quantify it. In other words, he created two categories that he labeled as endorsing a view that they most certainly didn't. The 97% claim is a deliberate misrepresentation designed to intimidate the public -- and numerous scientists whose papers were classified by Cook protested: "Cook survey included 10 of my 122 eligible papers. 5/10 were rated incorrectly. 4/5 were rated as endorse rather than neutral." -- Dr. Richard Tol ...97% or some similar figure....based on crude manipulation propagated by people whose ideological agenda it serves. It is a license to intimidate. It's time to revoke that license. Read this all: www.tiny.cc/Alex NEW___________________________ ___________________ Alex Epstein: On the Dr. Drew Pinsky Show, podcast They talked for over an hour, about everything from energy to aliens, in-vitro fertilization to Aristotle. And about Alex's book "The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels." It's one his best interviews. Drew is a bright guy who takes ideas seriously. He commented on today's dominate environmental philosophy: "It always situates us outside of nature, as though somehow we are some prevailing force that has nothing to do with the physical universe." Listen to it here: www.tiny.cc/AlexD NEW___________________________ ___________________ Alex Epstein: Presents his book "Moral Case for Fossil Fuels" He says the public only hears one side of the argument in the debate over fossil fuels. In his book, he argues fossil fuels have done more good than damage in the world and are a safe and reliable source of energy. Watch him anytime on C-Span 2, BookTV, from his talk at the Heritage Foundation, D.C. : www.tiny.cc/AlexC NEW___________________________ ___________________ NY civil forfeiture nightmare ends, IRS to return $447,000 Institute for Justice won a case so Federal prosecutors will return everything they seized from a Long Island convenience- store distributor, bringing one of the most widely-watched civil forfeiture fights in the nation to a close. The IRS seized nearly $447,000, based solely on a pattern of cash deposits deemed suspicious by government agents. Federal law requires banks to report cash deposits larger than $10,000 to the IRS....laws allow the government to seize property without charging anyone with, let alone convicting them of, a crime. Read it all at: www.tiny.cc/ijWIN NEW___________________________ ___________________ Free market and Objectivist local meetings, sites and podcasts *** Groups which meet in Manhattan *** Ayn Rand Institute on Tour -- www.tiny.cc/RandTalks Gotham Tea Party (occasionally)-- www.tiny.cc/GothamTea Junto -- www.NYCjunto.org Manhattan Libertarian Party -- www.manhattanLP.org NYC Ayn Rand Meetup -- www.meetup.com/AynRand-8 NY Objectivists/NY Heroes -- www.meetup.com/nyheroes *** Sites to visit *** Aristos: An online review of the arts -- www.aristos.org "Atlas" in your life -- www.Fountainheadinstitute.com Atlas Network -- www.AtlasNetwork.org The Atlas Society -- www.AtlasSociety.org The Atlasphere -- www.theAtlasphere.com Ayn Rand Institute -- www.AynRand.org Ayn Rand Lexicon -- www.AynRandLexicon.com Cato Institute -- www.cato.org Center for Industrial Progress -- www.tiny.cc/indProgress The College of the United States -- www.rifinst.org education blog -- www.LiberatingEducation. blogspot.com Forum for Ayn Rand fans -- www.forums.4aynRandFans.com Institute for Justice -- www.ij.org JayTaylor newsletter-- www.tiny.cc/JayT Liberty Magazine -- www.tiny.cc/LibertyMag Ludwig Von Mises Institute -- www.mises.org News Sandwich from Amy Peikoff -- www.tiny.cc/NewsS The Objective Standard -- www.theObjectiveStandard.com The Objective Standard's Blog -- www.tiny.cc/blogTOS Objectivism Online -- www.objectivismOnline.com Powell History -- www.tiny.cc/PowellHistory Powell history courses -- www.HistoryAtOurHouse.com Real Clear Politics -- www.RealClearPolitics.com Rebirth of Reason -- www.RebirthOfReason.com Sense of Life Objectivists -- www.soloPassion.com Tracinski at The Federalist -- www.tiny.cc/FedTra The Tracinski Letter -- www.tracinskiLetter.com *** Internet podcasts, all free *** These are mainly weekly "radio" shows you can hear online. Listen to shows live or at any time. Most are on iTunes. If you're listening live, join by commenting or asking questions by phone, email, in a chat room, tweeting, etc. * "Philosophy in action" Diana Heish answer questions from listeners, applying rational principles to challenges of real life. Live Sun., Q&A, 11:00am eastern time Live Thur., Interview, 9:00pm eastern: www.tiny.cc/DianaH * "Don't let it go unheard" Amy Peikoff on news and politics from the perspective of Ayn Rand's philosophy Objectivism. Bosch Fawstin, illusWriter also on the show. Visit his site to see his clever and dramatic work: www.tiny.cc/BoschF Live Fri., 3:00pm to 5:00am eastern: www.tiny.cc/AmyP * "The Yaron Brook Show" Weekly, this radical for capitalism discusses news, culture and politics from the principled perspective of Ayn Rand's philosophy, Objectivism. Yaron, president Ayn Rand Institute, is co-author of "Winning the Unwinnable War: America's self-crippled response to Islamic totalitarianism." He speaks worldwide on topics including the morality of capitalism, Ayn Rand's philosophy, finance and economics. Live Mon., 11:00am to 1:00pm eastern: www.tiny.cc/YBrook * "The Peikoff podcasts" Alternate weeks have Leonard Peikoff, philosopher, Ayn Rand's intellectual heir or Yaron Brook, president Ayn Rand Institute. Leonard answers questions on Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism, on human relationships, career, moral issues -- not technical philosophy or practical politics. Yaron answers questions on politics, economics, foreign policy. Podcasts available by topic, single questions or full episodes: www.tiny.cc/PeikoffBrook ______________________________ ____________________ Read and post to Junto sites * Read and post to the Forum: www.tiny.cc/JuntoForum * Read and post to Junto-discuss list: Discuss Junto speakers and other topics. To post you need to be a member. To sign up or to read posts: www.tiny.cc/Jdiscuss Or send an email to: NYCjunto-discuss-subscribe@ yahoogroups.com ______________________________ ____________________ About Junto and this Junto newsletter * Gene Epstein moderates Junto. He's the economics editor and books editor of Barron's, the weekly business magazine, author of ''Econospinning: How to read between the lines when the media manipulate the numbers'' www.tiny.cc/Econo * Iris Bell writes this e-newsletter, designs the Junto handouts and is a freelance graphic designer. She was Ayn Rand's and the Nathaniel Branden Institute's graphic designer. * Oleg Atbashian created NYCjunto.com. He also sends out this e-newsletter, cares for its email list and moderates www.tiny.cc/JuntoForum. His own famous site discusses important issues with humor: www.ThePeoplesCube.com * Our founder and host is Victor Niederhoffer. Dedicated to the scientific method, free markets, deflating ballyhoo, creating value and laughter; a forum for us to use our meager abilities to make the world of specinvestments a better place. Visit his site at: www.DailySpeculations.com * This e-newsletter comes out twice a month. You might get an occasional extra email about a timely event. * To subscribe to this newsletter put "Junto list" in the subject line, email your name & preferred email address to: info@NYCjunto.org ______________________________ ____________________ END
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